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13 Multiple AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims — Amazon says both incidents were 'user error'

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Multiple AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims — Amazon says both incidents were 'user error'

Amazon suffered from a couple of small outages driven by actions of AI agents. The company insists that these are user errors because it accidentally gave the AI permission to execute actions without approval from another user.

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